Date: Apr - 30 - 2021 , 15:57
BY: Kweku Zurek
Minister of Defence, Mr Dominic Nitiwul
Unlike previous attempts to flush out illegal miners from Ghana’s water bodies and forest reserves, the government has announced that all equipment that will be seized under a new effort to end galamsey will be destroyed on-site.
The operation which involves the deployment of 200 military personnel started last Wednesday and already nine excavators, 127 changfans (washing machines), and one fuel pump which were being used for illegal mining in the river Pra have destroyed [detonated] by the military.
The exercise on the Pra dubbed “Operation Halt” ended Thursday and it also resulted in the arrest of two Chinese nationals at Anttieku near Twifo Praso in the Central Region for illegally mining in a forest reserve.
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